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Last week's announcement that William Julius Wilson would join the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government solidified Harvard's position at the pinnacle of Afro-American academia. Wilson will also be a member of the Department of Afro-American studies, along with serving on the Advisory Board of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. One of the most distinguished and insightful sociologists in the country, Wilson is another outstanding addition to Harvard's intellectual Afro-American Studies all-star team, which already includes prominent scholars such as Cornel West '74, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Orlando...
Wilson follows the 1993 appoint ment of noted scholar and author Cornel West '74 to a position in the Department of Afro-American Studies...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, said in a Kennedy School press release that Wilson's appointment positions Harvard to assume a national leadership role in shaping public policy decisions regarding race and class...
...Afro-American Studies, Wilson will be the pivotal person in our social sciences component, complementing the considerable strength we have in cultural studies," Gates said. "This is a great day for Harvard, and a great day for Afro-American Studies...
According to Carnesale, the addition of Wilson further reinforces Harvard's standing as the nation's leading institution for sociology and Afro-American Studies...